Category: WordPress

  • The Open Web

    The Open Web

    The most powerful aspect of the Internet is the open web. From the very beginning, there has been a conflict with on one side walled gardens and closed networks with open standards and interoperability on the other. My first experience with an online world was dial-up into AOL and exploring their internal experiences. Only rarely…

  • Matt and Om at WCEU 2017

    Until the polished version is out, you can watch today’s WCEU Q&A with Om Malik (@om) and Matt (@photomatt) via the livestream video. I’m excited to see what we can do to improve the open web. https://youtu.be/e88INrSX5yk?t=1h7m7s Also on: Facebook Twitter

  • Tonight, I reset my MySQL root password and pulled a subsite out of my multisite into a new single install while maintaining all options, media, etc. I expect to be recruited by the NSA any minute now.

  • Happy Anniversary to Me!

    I would have never guessed nine years ago that trying out this WordPress thing would end up like this. From toying a bit when all of the Movable Type help I sought online suggested WordPress to having 70 core commits so far and providing the income for my family for years. My only regret was…

  • Writer’s Block

    39 and 8. Tonight, I sat down at the computer ready to publish a post that I started a week ago. “Hmm”, I thought to myself, “this topic isn’t as topical as it was. I’ve read this point since I thought it was an original idea.” Move to trash. I started going draft-by-draft seeing if…

  • Knock Knock WHOIS There?

    Knock Knock WHOIS There?

    You can still have fun while being corporate and while doing legal processes. One thing that brings me joy at work is to hear of the names we come up for entities. There’s Automattic, of course, named after Matt. We have a few subsidiaries in other countries to help streamline employment matters for Automatticians in…